While Tom Cruise is in court battling
allegations that he “abandoned” his little girl, Suri, following his divorce
from Katie Holmes, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that father and
daughter are spending the Thanksgiving holiday
apart.

Early Thursday morning, Holmes and Suri boarded a flight from New York’s
LaGuardia Airport to Detroit, Michigan. The quick hop landed them less than an
hour from Toledo, Ohio where Holmes’ parents and siblings live.

“They were in first class and Suri was adorable and so-well behaved,” an
eyewitness tells Radar.

The news that Suri is spending the holiday apart from her
famous father comes at an ironic time, just as he is fighting the publisher of
In Touch and Life & Style
magazines for saying he’d “abandoned” Suri.

In depositions obtained exclusively by Radar, the "Mission: Impossible" star
was forced to admit he went nearly four straight months without seeing Suri
following his divorce from Holmes, that he missed her first day of school last
year, and from June to November, 2012, he spent only 10 days with his
daughter.

Cruise is suing the publisher for $50 million in the libel action and insists
he is an attentive and loving father, who stays in constant contact with Suri
through phone calls and emails as his film commitments take him all over the
world.

As Radar reported, on Tuesday, the judge overseeing the case tossed out the
Cruise defense argument that Bauer Media is pro-Nazi, an allegation the company
has called “bizarre.”